wassailed

Verb

wassail (third-person singular simple present wassails, present participle wassailing, simple past and past participle wassailed)

1. (transitive) To toast, to drink to the health of another.
   • The next morning he much regretted the gusto with which he had wassailed the night before.
2. (intransitive) To drink wassail.
3. To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols.
   • Schoolchildren around the globe have gleefully sung Torches at Christmastime for half a century. Many of those in Birmingham have wassailed the carol at the front door of a cosy Victorian house in Moseley, unaware that behind that front door lives its composer.2002 February 21, Christopher Morley, “Culture: Children carry a torch for carol king; John Joubert will be 75 next month”, in The Birmingham Post

   Synonyms:

   carol

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